Comments on: MagLev rocks and the planning of the next Ruby shootout

By: Aaron Evans

Aaron Evans — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:42:59 +0000

I’m pretty sure “17 petabytes” is just marketing speak for “this compiles on an OS that runs on x86-64 CPUs.”

By: Conrad

Conrad — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:02:02 +0000

@Scott asked, “Does the Gemstone OO database technology support replication, hot backups, and failovers?”, the answer is yes. If you followed, Avi Bryant’s presentation:

http://www.vimeo.com/1147409

One can see that MagLev supports replication and will have support for failovers very soon. For example, he started two VM in the video where each VM knows about a shared object instance. If one or both of the MagLev VMs goes away after a commit, he can simply start at least one MagLev VM to get back where he left off. I say that because this is how Gemstone/S works now and have been working like this for well over 15+ years.

By: This Week in Ruby (June 16, 2008) | Zen and the Art of Programming

This Week in Ruby (June 16, 2008) | Zen and the Art of Programming — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:29:07 +0000

[...] RailConf’s presentation regarding MagLev has been an attention grabber in the world of alternative Ruby implementations. A video of Avi Bryant’s demo is now available online, as well as a somewhat older interview with InfoQ. You can read Chad Fowler’s take as well as mine. [...]

By: Adam Greene

Adam Greene — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:43:40 +0000

Your ‘Holy Shit’ comment made it into their presentation; nice big slide with just those two words.

Thanks for the benchmarks and keeping us informed on the changes going on!

By: Mathieu Martin

Mathieu Martin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:30:29 +0000

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By: Mathieu Martin

Mathieu Martin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:28:04 +0000

@Antonio, just pitching in to suggest a type of performance test known in some circles as “Processing a Shitload of Logs”. That would see object instantiation and gc in action under heavy load.

Can’t wait to see your next shootout. Having a better performance test suite is going to be refreshing, actually

Also, do you plan on checking memory consumption on these tests?

By: Gemstone’s MagLev presented at RubyConf « The Weekly Squeak

Gemstone’s MagLev presented at RubyConf « The Weekly Squeak — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:43:26 +0000

[...] some very different views of MagLev from Charles Nutter, Giles Bowkett, Obie Fernandez, and Antonio Cangiano, as well as an article at Slashdot. Avi has a blog-post addressing some of the [...]

By: Juixe TechKnow » MagLev

Juixe TechKnow » MagLev — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:55:37 +0000

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By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:31:26 +0000

@jp_tix: Good point. On Mac OS X, I will.

By: jp_tix

jp_tix — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:26:04 +0000

You should include MacRuby in your benchmark as well:

http://ruby.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/MacRuby